[4] He won the Sigma Delta Chi Award and has also been described on a 60 Minutes television profile as "One of the most respected crime reporters in the country.
[6] He graduated from Gloucester Catholic High School in 1965 and earned a BA in French literature from Dartmouth College.
Anastasia has served as an adjunct professor/lecturer at Glassboro State College, now called Rowan University, Temple University, and has been a lecturer for the U.S. State Department-sponsored series of weeklong seminars on journalism and organized crime in Bulgaria (2004, 2007), Croatia (2005), Serbia (2006), and Italy (2007).
[citation needed] Anastasia is the author of a novella, The Big Hustle (Philadelphia Inquirer Books, 2001), and has contributed to two anthologies of Italian American writers, A Sitdown with the Sopranos and Don't Tell Momma.
Mob Files, an anthology of articles he has written for The Inquirer, was published in September 2008 by Camino Books.